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Greetings!
Please join us this Sunday, October 24th, at 3 PM to hear pianist José Ramos-Santana - a prelude to his upcoming New York Carnegie Weill Recital Hall performance.
With our friends at the Washington Performing Arts Society, we are thrilled to announce a very special free master class on November 9th with renowned pianist Emanuel Ax. Hear the musical insights of one of the world's great pianists as he teaches three outstanding students. Our full season of concerts and master classes is listed in the red column on the right. We look forward to seeing you at our monthly musical offerings. Musically yours, Kathy JuddExecutive and Artistic Director |
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 José Ramos-Santana, piano
Sunday, October 24, 3 pm
Washington Conservatory of Music
One Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, MD 20816 301-320-2770 | Directionswww.washingtonconservatory.org
Free |donations accepted
 Pianist José Ramos-Santana, one of the outstanding piano faculty at The Washington Conservatory, is a native of Puerto Rico. He performs a wide and diverse repertoire, while being an acknowledged master of Spanish music. He has appeared as a soloist with such major orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, 92nd Street Y Orchestra, The New York Virtuosi, Casals Festival Orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony, and the orchestras of New Mexico, Sioux City, Utah, and Syracuse, among others.
A top prize winner of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, he has performed extensively in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Far East. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Adele Marcus, William Masselos, and Sylvia Rabinof. He has also coached with Leon Fleisher and Alicia de Larrocha.
Program
Polonaise-fantaisie, Op. 61 Chopin
Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2 Chopin
Ballade No. 1 in g minor, Op. 23 Chopin
Ballade William Bland
intermission Iberia Suite, Book 1 (complete) Albéniz Iberia Suite, Book 2 (complete) |
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Piano Master Class
with Emanuel Ax
Washington Conservatory of Music
One Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, MD 20816
Presented in cooperation with the
Washington Performing Arts Society
and underwritten by the
Bruce and Lori Rosenblum Music Education Fund. (The Washington Performing Arts Society will present Emanuel Ax in concert, Wednesday, November 10th at 8 PM at The Music Center at Strathmore. For more information: www.wpas.org.)
Master Class Student Performers
*Johann Wiese - Indiana University *Matthew Griswold - Oberlin Conservatory
Thomas Hunter - University of Maryland
* former students of the Washington Conservatory of Music
 Born in Lvov, Poland, pianist EMANUEL AX moved to Winnipeg, Canada with his family when he was a young boy. After studying at Julliard, Mr. Ax captured public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975, he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.
In recognition of the bicentenaries of Chopin and Schumann in 2010 and in partnership with London's Barbican, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony, Mr. Ax has commissioned new works from composers John Adams, Peter Lieberson, and Osvaldo Golijov for three recital programs to be presented in each of those cities with colleagues Yo-Yo Ma and Dawn Upshaw.
In addition to this large-scale project, he will tour Asia with the New York Philharmonic on their first tour with Music Director Alan Gilbert and tour in Europe with both the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and James Conlon as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony with Manfred Honeck. As a regular visitor in subscription concerts he will return to Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston during the spring.
In recent years, Mr. Ax has turned his attention toward the music of 20th-century composers, premiering works by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bright Sheng, and Melinda Wagner. Mr. Ax is also devoted to chamber music, and has worked regularly with such artists as Young Uck Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Mr. Ma, Edgar Meyer, Peter Serkin, Jaime Laredo, and the late Isaac Stern.
Mr. Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia Universities. |
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2010-11
Washington Conservatory Concerts at Westmoreland Circle
Sun. Oct. 24 (3 PM)
José Ramos-Santana, piano: Music of Albéniz & Chopin Sat. Nov. 20 (7:30 PM)
WCM Faculty: Celebration of Music Sat. Dec. 4 (8 PM)
Michael Adcock, piano: A Keyboard Potpourri - Short & Excerpted Piano Masterworks Sat. Jan. 8 (8 PM)
Alexander Paley, piano: An Evening of Franz Liszt Sat. Feb. 26 (7:30 PM)
James Stern, violin: Solo Sonatas & Partitas of JS Bach Sun. Mar. 27 (3 PM)
Christopher Sala, trumpet & Jeffery Watson, piano: The Golden Age of Cornet Sun. Apr. 10 (3 PM)
Alexej Gorlatch, piano: Leeds Competition medal winner
* Co-sponsored by the Washington Group Cultural Fund Sat. May 7 (8 PM) Haskell Small, piano: Me & Them - Small, Bach, Hovhaness, & Ives 2010-11
Washington Conservatory
Master Classes Tue. Nov. 9 (7 PM)
Master Class: Emanuel Ax, piano * Co-sponsored by WPAS Fri. Apr. 8 (6 PM) Master Class: Simone Dinnerstein, piano * Co-sponsored by WPAS |
Who We Are 
The Washington Conservatory of Music is a nationally accredited community music school that serves the greater metropolitan DC and Bethesda, MD area from two locations: Westmoreland Circle (at the border of the District and Maryland) and at Glen Echo Park.
At WCM, students of all ages and ability levels study without audition under the guidance of our exceptional international artist faculty. Our teaching and rehearsal spaces include 7 virtual acoustic sound isolation recording rooms.For more information, please call us at (301) 320-2770 or visit our web site. |
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